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There is a filially pious Lally; a couple of liberal Lameths.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

They who take the work of life as given by God in kindness, and as to be done faithfully and cheerfully, filially, keep and enlarge their power.

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel

However, these Letters of his make me think I ought to feel more filially to my Daddy: I must dip myself again in Mr. Lowell’s excellent Account of him with a more reverent Spirit. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

But this time there was no malice in the term, and when she said good-night to him at the motor door, it was simply and filially.

From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin

Thus he was always devotedly, filially, lovingly attached to the Church of England.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.